It flooded back into the faces of the melancholy refugees huddled within its sheer stone walls, reanimated the arms and armor of its defenders, and struck with unwholesome spots of mottled brown and green the gargoylish faces of those who besieged it.

He made the Tories happy too, for what better recruiting sergeant could they hope for than this gargoylish incompetent, lying and leering, booming and boasting at the public right through to the next election.